Re: This Sporting Life : Wed Apr 01, 2020 3:33 pm  

newgroundb4wakey wrote:

Wasn't that a way of getting round the licensing laws or something.
Seem to remember you could only serve alcohol after a certain time if it was with food.
Remember it being a small portion of chips and one sausage.

You’re right it was and yes, a choice of two if I remember correctly, steak Canadian or sausage and chips.

Re: This Sporting Life : Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:26 pm  

JINJER wrote:

You’re right it was and yes, a choice of two if I remember correctly, steak Canadian or sausage and chips.

Toronto burger

Re: This Sporting Life : Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:39 pm  

1315trinity wrote:

I was there that day and saw that incident. Garforth was obviously incensed at something said to him. pity he didn't display the same aggression on the pitch!

There wouldn't have been many people brave enough to say that to his face back in the 80's or 90's.

Re: This Sporting Life : Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:41 pm  

MC_Wildcat wrote:

Great memories of Frank Hepworth and the Kalahari Bushmen, I seem to remember Frank having a nightclub just off the Bullring later in life.

They used to play at the Wakefield Arms also. Anybody remember another band who used to play there called the Zillionairs? Not a Jazz band more 50s and 60s classics? Anyone remember them, bass player was called Costello I thing.

Re: This Sporting Life : Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:02 pm  

Tommy Duckfingers wrote:

There wouldn't have been many people brave enough to say that to his face back in the 80's or 90's.

Why? what's wrong with saying to someone they don't play with an aggressive style? I felt Garforth was one of those player who actually needed to display more aggression on the pitch, I think it would have made him a better player - that's what I was simply implying,not that he was ineffective!

Re: This Sporting Life : Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:05 pm  

vastman wrote:

They used to play at the Wakefield Arms also. Anybody remember another band who used to play there called the Zillionairs? Not a Jazz band more 50s and 60s classics? Anyone remember them, bass player was called Costello I thing.

Would that be Tony Costello? wasn't he the landlord there, or the landlord of another pub in Kirkgate? Sorry a bit vague, this age thing!

Re: This Sporting Life : Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:17 pm  

1315trinity wrote:

Would that be Tony Costello? wasn't he the landlord there, or the landlord of another pub in Kirkgate? Sorry a bit vague, this age thing!

His son I think he was the bass player, they were pretty good musicians but not very original good pub band.

Re: This Sporting Life : Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:45 pm  

I have not seen the film in ages but feel sure that the party house was on Barnsley road before it was demolished.

Re: This Sporting Life : Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:08 pm  

vastman wrote:

His son I think he was the bass player, they were pretty good musicians but not very original good pub band.

Tony Costello had the Wakefield Arms right up to closure I think. He played the piano and the Jazz nights at the pub were very popular. I noticed there was a scaffold around the building when I passed the other day. it seems like they're renovating it. The buiding has "listed" status having been one of the first in the world to be built using Portland cement. Joseph Aspdin (the inventor of Portland cement) had his works just around the corner on the site that became Kirkgate railway station). History lesson over

His brother, Pat, sang and played along with the Bushmen from time to time.

Re: This Sporting Life : Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:32 pm  

Redscat wrote:

Tony Costello had the Wakefield Arms right up to closure I think. He played the piano and the Jazz nights at the pub were very popular. I noticed there was a scaffold around the building when I passed the other day. it seems like they're renovating it. The buiding has "listed" status having been one of the first in the world to be built using Portland cement. Joseph Aspdin (the inventor of Portland cement) had his works just around the corner on the site that became Kirkgate railway station). History lesson over

His brother, Pat, sang and played along with the Bushmen from time to time.

It was up for sale when I passed before the plague kicked in, glad that they are doing something with it as it was looking a bit of an eye sore.